In the 1950s and ’60s, long before the city became overrun by tech bros in Patagonia vests, San Francisco was at the heart of the countercultural revolution, and that free-spirited mindset manifested as a community of 20 floating homes on Mission Creek Harbor. They remain the city’s only permitted floating homes.
When it was established, the community was part of an industrial zone, surrounded by railroad yards, warehouses, and a polluted working waterway. Times…

